Alternate Wars

1991 anthology of short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg

Alternate Wars

Cover of first edition

Editors| Gregory Benford
Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist| Paul Swendsen
Language| English
Series| What Might Have Been
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Bantam Spectra

Publication date

| December 1991
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (paperback)
Pages| viii, 296 pp.
ISBN| 0-553-29008-8
Preceded by| Alternate Heroes
Followed by| Alternate Americas

Alternate Wars is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the third volume in their What Might Have Been series.[1] It was first published in paperback by Bantam Spectra in December 1991. It was later gathered together with Alternate Americas into the omnibus anthology What Might Have Been: Volumes 3 & 4: Alternate Wars / Alternate Americas (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, December 1992).[2]

The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.

## Contents

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* "Introduction" (Gregory Benford)
* "And Wild for to Hold" (Nancy Kress)
* "Tundra Moss" (F. M. Busby)
* "When Free Men Shall Stand" (Poul Anderson)
* "Arms and the Woman" (James Morrow)
* "Ready for the Fatherland" (Harry Turtledove)
* "The Tomb" (Jack McDevitt)
* "Turpentine" (Barry N. Malzberg)
* "Goddard's People" (Allen Steele)
* "Manassas, Again" (Gregory Benford)
* "The Number of the Sand" (George Zebrowski)
* "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" (Winston S. Churchill)
* "Over There" (Mike Resnick)

## References

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1. ^ "Uchronia: What Might Have Been". www.uchronia.net.
2. ^ Alternate Wars title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Works by Gregory Benford

Novels|

* In the Ocean of Night
* Timescape
* Against Infinity
* Across the Sea of Suns
* Great Sky River
* Foundation's Fear
* Eater
* The Berlin Project

| Collaborations|

* If the Stars are Gods (with Gordon Eklund)
* Heart of the Comet (with David Brin)
* Beyond the Fall of Night (with Arthur C. Clarke)
* Murasaki (with Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, David Brin, Nancy Kress and Frederik Pohl)

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Editor|

* Alternate Empires (with Martin H. Greenberg)
* Alternate Heroes (with Martin H. Greenberg)
* Alternate Wars (with Martin H. Greenberg)
* Alternate Americas (with Martin H. Greenberg)
* Nebula Awards Showcase 2000

Related|

* Gregory Benford bibliography

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